Previous letters pages can be found here.

Letters page from volume 2, issue 20.
September 29th – October 12th, 1954.

OUR

LETTER PAGE

A letter from Beverley Cooper, 39 Elwood Street, Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Dear Enid Blyton,
I enjoy reading your magazine and have all the copies from the first issue. I was wondering if you could print my name for a pen-friend. I know that you have said that if you did this, the person would be flooded with replies – but I promise you this, that if I get too many letters I will take them to school (we have more than 1,000 girls there) and get my friends to write.
Love from
Beverley Cooper

(It is true that I have always re- fused to print anyone’s name in this way, Beverley-but I will make an exception, and see if you really can manage to fix up scores of pen- friendships between overseas readers. Good luck to you!)

A letter from Annette Starbuck, Radford Road, Nottingham.
Dear Enid Blyton,
Please will you write a story in our magazine to tell children NOT to stand or walk right on the edge of the pavement, because I did, and I fell on to a passing car, cut my forehead, and had 18 stitches in, and had to stay in hospital for eight days.
Love from
Annette Starbuck.

(Your letter will be better than a story, Annette – what a dreadful thing to happen! I’m glad you are better.)

A letter from Kathleen Scott, Beverley, Yorks
Dear Enid Blyton,
Since I joined the Sunbeams I have been working very hard indeed to earn money for our Blind Children. I darned the socks weekly, I helped to make bootees and sold them to an aunt, and I have been helping Mummy in the house. So now I enclose 10s. 6d. for your Blind Children, and some day I hope that their lives will be as happy as my own.
With all my love,
Kathleen Scott
(Sunbeam).

(A kind and generous letter, Kathleen. You certainly shine brightly.)

What a week! Blyton breaks her own rule about pen-friends, and the fund-raiser doesn’t get the winning spot!

I’m actually not sure if the first letter still gets a prize at this point as that hasn’t been referenced for a while. But I’m sure Beverly got a lot of letters after this was published – I wonder just how many, and how many were replied to?